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An Empirical Study Investigating Instant Messaging as an Enabling Tool for ...: EBSCOhost - 7 views

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texting a study in ease of use for education

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  • This paper describes an empirical study on postgraduate students in a local university to investigate whether instant messaging (IM) tools are used as enabler tools for learning
  • undertook a survey of 104 postgraduate students.
  • findings indicated that external factors
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  • such as technology utility, network externality, media influences, self-efficacy and affection have a significant effect on perceived usefulness (PU)
  • perceived ease of use (PEOU)
  • PEOU has significant influence on the students' acceptance of IM tools as enabler for learning
  • Overall, the findings suggested students' perceptions of IM tools are easy to use and useful in the context of learning.
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QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING IN INTERNET STUDIES: Playing with the media, playi...: EBSCOhost - 3 views

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texting studies

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  • QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING IN INTERNET STUDIES: Playing with the media, playing with the method.
  • benefits
  • instant messaging.
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  • as well as methodological effects (e.g. ability to probe, collecting affective data, and data representation)
  • The focus is on functional effects (e.g. scheduling and other logistics, data transcription and data management)
  • The authors found that
  • method
  • of data collection produced viable data for the projects they completed
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Effects of Mobile Instant Messaging on Collaborative Learning Processes and...: EBSCOhost - 4 views

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texting collaborative

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  • The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of mobile instant messaging on collaborative learning processes and outcomes.
  • measured in terms of different types of interactions.
  • taskwork and their teamwork.
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  • the students'
  • Instant Messaging group (Mobile IM)
  • Computer-based Instant Messaging
  • The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of mobile instant messaging on collaborative learning processes and outcomes.
  • A total of 48 students participated in this study
  • the Mobile IM group shows better teamwork than the other two groups.
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Could Texting Be Good for Students? - US News - 4 views

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texting education

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  • And a new study from California State University researchers has found that texting can improve teens' writing in informal essays and many other writing assignments.
  • "Texting-speak is not a mangled form of English that is degrading proper language but instead a kind of 'pidgin' language all its own that actually stretches teens' language skills."
  • some teachers say that texting has educational tie-ins and that it can teach positive language skills, the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina
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  • But civics teacher Annie McCanless says that texting has become an established part of teens' lives. "It can be used as a real tool as opposed to a hindrance," she told the Observer. Students interviewed by the North Carolina paper said that they routinely text their friends at night when they have questions about homework assignments or about when projects are due.
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PowerON: The use of instant message counseling and the Internet to facilita...: EBSCOhost - 3 views

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texting hiv_std counseling

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  • This study explores the application of online counseling to HIV/STD risk-taking behavior
  • among men who have sex with men (MSM).
  • provides sexual health information to MSM exclusively online, used instant message technology to counsel MSM
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  • sample of 279 transcripts of instant message exchanges between PowerON counselors and Gay.com users were recorded and qualitatively analyzed.
  • PowerON, an organization
  • Conclusion: The data showed these instant message sessions to be a potentially feasible forum for HIV/STD counseling.
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